Yeah, this is what I've been saying. "Good" or open-minded Christians are entirely unhelpful, unless they actively teach tolerance to their own. Coming here and bitching about hurt feelings and how not *all* Christians are bad and "I am SO offended, I have a Transgender friend, so fuck you" ("I'm not racist, I have a…

According to Leelah's own reddit post just a couple of months ago, this is the unconditional love her mother showed her.

This is, absolutely, 100%, on them. No, they didn't 'deserve to lose their child' - but only because their child deserved a chance to live in a family and a place that accepted them instead of being emotionally abused for her entire life.

You should be proud of your community and I am always happy to see positive examples like this. The problem with Christians and Christians is that they believe in completely opposite things and go by the same name. While one group is about love, tolerance and acceptance, the other is simply a hate group. Funny how…

I will concede that generalization is rarely fair to everyone. However, what is really frustrating about this is that sane religious people, like yourself and others, hasten to jump with this #notallmen sort of crap, when that is so not the point. Horrible things like this poor girl's ultimate fate happen…

Nah - heartless is driving your child to suicide because you refuse to accept them for who they are. It's not heartless to call someone out on that.

Of course it would take time to adjust, and I'm sure even the best parents slip up and use the wrong name/pronoun every once in a while. The point is, the good parents try.

She loved her son. She loved her son. She didn't have a son. She had a daughter. This woman's cognitive dissonance is so fucking intense that she is capable of going to the goddamned media and telling the world that she loved a person who no longer existed except in her (and possibly her husband's) head.

I'd like to see there being some comeback for the therapists too.

"We don't support that, religiously," Alcorn's mother told CNN Wednesday, her voice breaking. "But we told him that we loved him unconditionally. We loved him no matter what. I loved my son. People need to know that I loved him. He was a good kid, a good boy.""

The Christian Right will use this women as a platform. She will feel vindicated in her self righteous actions and will probably profit from interviews and a gofundme. She and her husband will never truly understand how they bullied their child as evidence by her own words. Denial and religious self righteous drips…

Deluded, self-absorbed, bigoted, disrespectful, closed-minded, heartless, ignorant, bullying, despicable MURDERER.

What is it about conservative Christians that makes them so sure GLBTQ people are choosing that "lifestyle" (I hate that phrase), but unable to see that their religion is absolutely a choice? These people chose their religion over their child. They made a choice to condition their love of that child upon her meeting…

I've had a few conflicts with my family over why I refuse to have my kids baptized and I'll have to forward them this story. Over and over again throughout history religion has been used to discriminate, to persecute and to torture. This young woman was perfect just the way she was and fuck any religion that told her…

This whole article is so eerie to me, because everything here that the mother has said mirrors exactly the conversation my beautiful (transwoman) wife and I had with my own mother this Christmas Day. So, so sad.

I'm with Dan Savage on this one. If the people responsible for driving Tyler Clementi to take his own life can be prosecuted then these fucks, who drove their daughter to kill herself can face the same fate.

Typical evangelical Christian, really. Spend your entire life bullying minority groups, then pretend you're the real victim.

Your religion is more important than your child? Then you can fuck right off.

Well, that's just perfect.